Bar/Bat Mitzvah Basics
A Practical Family Guide to Coming of Age Together
Edited by Cantor Helen Leneman
Jewish Lights Publishing: 2001
ISBN: 1580231519
Book Description:
A practical guide that gives parents and teens the "how-to" information
they need to navigate the bar/bat mitzvah process and grow as a family
through this experience. For the first time in one book, everyone
directly involved offers practical insights into how the process can be
made easier and more enjoyable for all. Rabbis, cantors and Jewish
educators from the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist
movements, parents, and even teens speak from their own experience.
From the Back Cover Out of her vast
experience as a Cantor and educator, Leneman has written an important
guide that strengthens and solidifies the family through the wisdom and
warmth of Judaism.
About the Author
Cantor Helen Leneman's specialty is bar/bat mitzvah education. She has worked as a cantor and a b'nai mitzvah teacher in Los Angeles and Baltimore and the greater Washington, D.C., area. For several years she chaired the B'nai Mitzvah Educators Network of CAJE (the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education). She has a B.A. from UCLA and an M.A. in Judaic Studies from Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion, has studied cantorial liturgy, and is the author of Bar/Bat Mitzvah Education: A Sourcebook.
